I was so busy watching the FAA ground stop I missed SPACEX SPACE JUNK SHUT DOWN WEST COAST air traffic to Hawaii too today.
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(now lifted, this preceded the whole ground stop thing)
@ai6yr Isn't this 1:55 Hawaii time, or 3:55 PST? So not before the ground stop at 1:20 PST.
And Pacific-bound flights from SFO had been allowed since around 3:19 pm, way before the general lifting..
https://sfba.social/@sarahstierch/117611688406269675
So this SpaceX-related issue was indeed another ground stop.
@jeridansky It's all kinda confusing there. 🤷 I am sure a perusal of the FAA alerts would reveal the actual alert at that time, I suppose.
@ai6yr If only America had an agency which could regulate rocket launches and prevent this kind of thing.
@LabSpokane @ai6yr Or some sort of "Space Force" that could be deployed to annihilate anyone using space-related vehicles in a way that interferes with the nation's commerce.
@ai6yr How many more "test launches" has Starship now had than the *entirety* of the Saturn V program, and still not a single success?
@leon_p_smith @ai6yr SpaceX is currently running 22 launches *behind* Saturn, or 7 behind if you only count the Saturn IB and Saturn V (same upper stage, different lower stages), and by any reasonable definition, Starship flight 11 was a success: all mission objectives accomplished with no damage to either the booster or orbiter.
@carnildo @leon_p_smith Ah, but did the Saturn V program have a right wing Nazi wanna be in charge?
@ai6yr these things happen. we should just get over it.
completely sus
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Garbage up, garbage down. This is progress. :-)